Albert Dürer's designs of the Prayer Book [of Maximilian I] / [Maximilian I].

  • Maximilian I
Date:
1817
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Albert Dürer's designs of the Prayer Book [of Maximilian I] / [Maximilian I]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LIST OF PLATES. . ■ , . / PORTRAIT of Albert Durer, from an original painting in the Schleissheim Gallery.—Title page, &c. I. Arabesque: a man Playing on the Hautboy. The Rubric: sui ipsius in Deum commendatio. (Leaf 6 of the Prayer-book, with the original designs.)] II. St. Barbara. (De S. Barbara. Leaf 7.) III. St. Sebastian, as the Saint who protects from Pestilence, denoted by the Dragon. (De S. Sebastiano. Leaf 8.) IV. St. George lifting the Dragon which he has killed. (De St. Georgio. Leaf 9.) V. A Sick Physician with the Urine-Glass. (Propriae suae fragilitas cum gratiarum actione in Deum cognitio. Leaf 9.) VI. Vision of John the Evangelist. (Evangelium Johannis. Leaf 17.) Apparatus for Writing at the bottom of Leaf 18. VII. A Knight drawing his Sword against Death. (Quicunque hanc orationem devote dixerit, eodem oratio in agone mortis suae sibi in memoriam veniet et adjumentum et consolationem praestabit. Leaf 12.) VIII. The Beneficent Man. (Pro benefactoribus interpellatio. Leaf 15.) IX. Two Musicians, a Hermit, the Lion Fighting with an Insect. (Ps. 8. Leaf 35. Constituisti hominem super opera manuum tuarum.) X. King David Playing on the Harp. (Psalmus De Profundis. Leaf 16.) On the opposite side the Unicorn; a type of the Prophecies concerning the Blessed Virgin in the Psalms. XI. Ecce Homo ! (Post elevationem corporis et sanguinis D. N. Jesu Christi. “ Domine J. C. qui mundum universum proprio sanguine redemisti. Leaf 10.) XII. A Candelabrum, held by two hovering Genii. (Ps. 50. Leaf 19.) XIII. The Trinity. (Sanctae Trinitatis supplex invocatio. Leaf 21. Quia peccatores salvare venisti, miserere mihi peccatori.) XIV. St. George on Horseback. (De S. Georgio. Leaf 23. Latin Hymn.) XV. St. Apollonia. (De S. Appolonia. Leaf 24.) XVI. St. Matthias. (De S. Mathia. Leaf 24.) XVII. St. Andrew. (De S. Andrea. Leaf 25.) XVIII. St. Maximilian. (De S. Maximiliano. Leaf 25.) XIX. The Pride of the Devil humbled: below, the Procession of one of the Mighty of the Earth : above, Christ in tranquil greatness, as the true Emblem of Power. The Child with the Hobby-horse, as first Leader of the Royal Car, seems not to have been placed there by chance. (Contra Potentes. Leaf 26.) XX. A Group of Fighting Men: on the side of the weaker party, (compare Nos. 21 and 40,) an Angel praying. (Quando bellum adeundum est, duo psalmi dicendi. Leaf 28.) XXL A similar group; an Angel with a Censer. (Psalmus Davidis. Leaf 29. Expugna impug- nantes me.)